Day in Pictures, Dec. 17, 2013

December 17, 2013 |By Mike Moffitt

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The ankle bone's connected to the ... hand bone? After a man named Xie Wei lost his hand in a factory accident in Changsha, China, doctors could not immediately reattach the hand because of the severity of his injuries. Instead, they grafted the appendage to his ankle to allow it to "borrow" blood from arteries in the leg. Last week, about a month after the accident, they were able to replant the hand to his arm. It remains to be seen how much functionality Xie will regain.

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The ankle bone's connected to the ... hand bone? After a man named Xie Wei lost his hand in a factory accident in Changsha, China, doctors could not immediately reattach the hand because of the severity of his injuries. Instead, they grafted the appendage to his ankle to allow it to "borrow" blood from arteries in the leg. Last week, about a month after the accident, they were able to replant the hand to his arm. It remains to be seen how much functionality Xie will regain.